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(By A Special Correspondent)
A RAILMAN trying to fight his 'way to work during the great snowstorm which swept the North of England, stumbled by chance upon a thousand "lost" people trapped in a string of six trains buried in drifts only five miles from Newcastle-on- Tyne. Some of the passengers were trapped for thirty-six hours.
Climbing over a drift the railman discovered he had landed on the roofs of some carriages which he presumed were empty. As he started to walk along this high level route through the snow, he was amazed to hear voices.
Then he found the buried carriages were pack- ed with hungry men, women and children who had passed the night sleeping on floors, seats and lug- gage racks. Among them were several mothers with young children.
One after another six 'PLANE
trains had been forced to
stop until there was a
string of about seventy FIRES ON five stranded carriages. CHILDREN
36 Hours in Train
MY HAT!
IT'S MURDER
My hat! said Louis Blonea a New York night watchitian when a torty run over his straw hat.
Louis never forgave the lorry driver, Joseph Libozetta and now, nearly a year after the loss of the hat, he shot him.
So Louis is in gool awaiting trial for murder.
SALMON, CHAMPAGNE, HAD 1S. 1D.
between
A passenger and the railway-
This Cruising low over three
little dialogue man who had found the trains
villages, a magistrate and accused man took set out to seek help and made East Coast their way to the next station, and Dornier "Flying Pencil" place in Westminster Police Court machine-gunned children, when Frederick Griggs, twenty- unemployed munition
hours later managed to send message to Newcastle.
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Railway officials sought the aid of the military and in an hour and a half, the snowfall having
I stopped, a cavalcade of railway with lorries laden and army
rulls, cake, bread, pies, sausage fea and a supply of goat's milk, set out to find and feed the last thousand
a district nurse and other nine, women, as well as thatch-worker, of Glenview Road, Abbey ed cottages.
Wood London, was remanded in custody on a charge of incurring a debt of 18s. 6d, at the Grosvenor Restaurant. Victoria, by pretences. Grigg pleaded not guilty.
Hotel The children, on their way to Echool threw themselves into a false roadside ditch when the raider opened fire.
a
A walter at the
restaurant taid that late at night Griggs
boiled salmon and half-bottle of champagne. Whan handed the bill he asked for a double rum, but it was then too late.
Eventually he said he had. no money, and wished to give his name and address.
The Domier skimmed the
ordered al an inland village Six men rode with each lorry | hedgerows to clear the snow. Every quar- and flew towards the coast. ter-mile they had to stop to dig their way through tremedous drifts, When they got within half a mile of the stranded trains they left the lorries to hew the remainder of the way.
Down this snow-walled road they carried the food to the star- ing passengers and milk for the children.
Some of the passengers were carried back on the return journey, but others had to stay on the trains untli rescued by other lorries, spending in all thirty-six hours in the carriages.
Birds Hid In Buses
The Flying Scotsman, crack ex- press, was snowbound for thir- teen hours a few miles north of Newcastle, and reached Edinburgh the following afternoon thirty hours late.
Two M.P.S-Mr. David Kirk- wood and Mr. George Mathers-on a rail trip from London to Edin- burgh, had to live on six biscuits each for a day and a half. The Journey took fifty-five hours.
In Newcastle buses and trams were stranded in the streets for twenty-four hours as soldiers and roadmen struggled to clear the
snow.
Once it paused to circle and machine-gun a poultry farm. Then it paused at the height of a vill- age church tower to send more bursts at a horse and cart on a road,
No one was hurt.
London Day Bombs
A few seconds after a London alert in the morning, an enemy plane flew over one district and dropped a stick of bombs which damaged a number of shops and houses.
Police - Constable Wolhamus was killed while on patrol, and several people were injurned by bomba.
An oil bomb and an H.E. bomb were dropped in a neighbouring area and caused damage to houses.
Griggs: I tried three places be- fore going to the Grosvenor, buţ they were all shutting up, and I thought the were trying to bar me
I saw the Gros- from coming in.
I venor was open, and went in. had more than I could pay for.
What is your excuse for or- dering salmon and champagne when you had only Is. Id. in. your pocket?
When I looked at the menu I thought I might as well have a spread. I should have looked ridiculous to have walked out after having sat down.
THE WITCHES ARE AFTER OLD ADOLF
SOLEMN EFFORTS to destroy Hitler by witch- When the time came to move craft are being made nightly by a group of men and the buses and trams again the
women in Washington, District of Columbia. These transportmen found that birds, ex- hausted by their struggle in the people, all believers in the power of sorcery, sit in a◄
in the ring round a small cushion image of Hitler, sticking
pins, needles and nails into it.
refuge snow, had taken vehicles and turned them into aviarjes.
STANDARD ANGLO- U.S. "PLANES
At the same time they chant | stick things into the doll's vitals," the following dreadful Indanta-he said. tion-
"Istan, come and help, us, we The ritual of the anti-Hitler sessions was planned on the 're- Conimendation of William Sea- brook, of New York, world authority on witchcraft...
are driving nails and needles,
"We are driving "pins and needles Into Adolf Hitler's heart.
"We are driving nails and need -los, we are driving pins and
needles,
"Cat" will claw his heart in darkness, dogs will bite it in the
night." in a press con-
United States officials have worked out details for the stand- 'ardisation' of aircraft equipment; In both countries, Major Gen. Henry H. Arnold, United States Air Chief, said ferenber
Leader of the group is Mr. The standardisation of equip- Richard Tupper, who says that its ment was made so that when women members make the best our airplanes come over they witches. will be equally acceptable as the British," he said. "The two coun- tries are not hiding anything from each other in the matter of air craft equipment,”*
Blood-Curdling
"They rasp that curdle your
Mr. Beabrook says that, if "Hitler hears about them he“may, "worry himself into a bad spell,
and perhaps into the grave, i The history of witchcraft, he adds, records many cases of people being ruined by the knowledge of attempts to cast a spell on them.
And Mr. Tupper hopes that...- thousands of people all over the World will form similar witchcraft”. circles with the great ideal of out Incantations casting the worst possible spell
Bloga as they on' Adolf;'